The Apocryphal Books of the Old New Testament #226313

The first question which naturally suggests itself in approaching the study of Jewish Apocryphal literature is, Why should we trouble about the Apocrypha at all? What value has the Apocrypha for us to-day? Im mersed as we are in theological problems of the first importance, why should we devote time and strength to the study of books which have been unanimously re jected by the whole of Protestant Christendom?